Good parts....
-Nick going full-out Grimm. This is why there's Grimms in the first place, as a check against organized Wesen aggression like BC. The scene where he allows himself to be taken to the North Precinct is a straight-out copy of Daredevil where Punisher lets himself be captured by the Irish, but its OK because it works just as well in both places. They're beating and taunting Nick, but you know he's really the one in control the whole time and they're all already dead without knowing it
-Nick being undead Grimm, but not a zombie this time I was hoping he'd pull that trick against Bonaparte too...or that the stick would keep him from dying from the force-choke, and he could stagger forward and kill Bonaparte himself while he looked on in disbelief. The stick is obviously a dangerous game for the writers to be playing, the power of immortality, but it could also make for a compelling MacGuffin in S6.
-Eve is gone, that's something to celebrate for the moment...
-Hexenbiest fight. I was kinda wondering if their powers could counter each others, but looks like no. Nice to see Eve's reverse-gravity throw-them-into-the-ceiling trick again. Just makes me wish they both were more creative with what they could do instead of just flinging objects at each other like toddlers...their powers seem pretty wide-ranging in scope.
-Trubel. Trubel's always a good part.
-Bringing up the Grimm registry again, makes me wonder if Nick is going to build a Grimm army to replace HW
Bad parts...
-First one is the biggest: Diana is completely driving the plot, she's literally manipulating the characters into doing whatever they need to to advance the story. Everyone involved with that family is just along for the ride, they're passive actors in their own lives being given lines and direction by Diana. I was hoping Renard would kill Bonaparte of his own volition after seeing him murder Meisner and then trying to murder Nick, have a Darth Vader moment of sorts where he's like "we're not doing things your way anymore". But unless the next season is set up where *Diana* is the antagonist, I don't know what purpose it serves having a living deus-ex-machina like her. Especially a badly-written, creepy little one like that.
-I still don't like Sean's sudden BC Kool-Aid drinking. I don't buy that he's in this for Wesen liberation. I hope they don't try to set him up as the new BC overlord after murdering Bonaparte. The only saving grace then would be if he turned BC against the Royals in a personal vendetta, and Nick ended up joining forces with the King to oppose them.
-They killed Meisner, I liked him. I was really hoping we'd eventually get to learn more about him and the Resistance, that's still such a big unresolved plotline.
-Juliette may be back. Just no. I thought the reason we had Eve was because the writers accepted that Juliette was an abysmal failure as a character and seeing Bitsie try to act is like chewing on dry shoe leather. Even when she just flashes on screen for a moment, she's immediately worthless and a liability to the other characters. "Whats happening to me? Whats happening to me?" How should I know, bitch? Now shut up and get in the tunnel before you get us all murdered!
-Nick going full-out Grimm. This is why there's Grimms in the first place, as a check against organized Wesen aggression like BC. The scene where he allows himself to be taken to the North Precinct is a straight-out copy of Daredevil where Punisher lets himself be captured by the Irish, but its OK because it works just as well in both places. They're beating and taunting Nick, but you know he's really the one in control the whole time and they're all already dead without knowing it
-Nick being undead Grimm, but not a zombie this time I was hoping he'd pull that trick against Bonaparte too...or that the stick would keep him from dying from the force-choke, and he could stagger forward and kill Bonaparte himself while he looked on in disbelief. The stick is obviously a dangerous game for the writers to be playing, the power of immortality, but it could also make for a compelling MacGuffin in S6.
-Eve is gone, that's something to celebrate for the moment...
-Hexenbiest fight. I was kinda wondering if their powers could counter each others, but looks like no. Nice to see Eve's reverse-gravity throw-them-into-the-ceiling trick again. Just makes me wish they both were more creative with what they could do instead of just flinging objects at each other like toddlers...their powers seem pretty wide-ranging in scope.
-Trubel. Trubel's always a good part.
-Bringing up the Grimm registry again, makes me wonder if Nick is going to build a Grimm army to replace HW
Bad parts...
-First one is the biggest: Diana is completely driving the plot, she's literally manipulating the characters into doing whatever they need to to advance the story. Everyone involved with that family is just along for the ride, they're passive actors in their own lives being given lines and direction by Diana. I was hoping Renard would kill Bonaparte of his own volition after seeing him murder Meisner and then trying to murder Nick, have a Darth Vader moment of sorts where he's like "we're not doing things your way anymore". But unless the next season is set up where *Diana* is the antagonist, I don't know what purpose it serves having a living deus-ex-machina like her. Especially a badly-written, creepy little one like that.
-I still don't like Sean's sudden BC Kool-Aid drinking. I don't buy that he's in this for Wesen liberation. I hope they don't try to set him up as the new BC overlord after murdering Bonaparte. The only saving grace then would be if he turned BC against the Royals in a personal vendetta, and Nick ended up joining forces with the King to oppose them.
-They killed Meisner, I liked him. I was really hoping we'd eventually get to learn more about him and the Resistance, that's still such a big unresolved plotline.
-Juliette may be back. Just no. I thought the reason we had Eve was because the writers accepted that Juliette was an abysmal failure as a character and seeing Bitsie try to act is like chewing on dry shoe leather. Even when she just flashes on screen for a moment, she's immediately worthless and a liability to the other characters. "Whats happening to me? Whats happening to me?" How should I know, bitch? Now shut up and get in the tunnel before you get us all murdered!